Don Taylor

Don Taylor (1936-2003) was a playwright and poet, and a director of theatre, television and radio plays. He worked as drama director at the BBC, and between 1960 and 1990, he directed nearly a hundred television plays. He translated and directed for BBC Television the Theban plays of Sophocles - Oedipus the King , Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus . He followed this with translations of three Euripides war plays - Iphigenia at Aulis , The Women of Troy and Helen . He was co-director of Compass...See more

Don Taylor (1936-2003) was a playwright and poet, and a director of theatre, television and radio plays. He worked as drama director at the BBC, and between 1960 and 1990, he directed nearly a hundred television plays. He translated and directed for BBC Television the Theban plays of Sophocles - Oedipus the King , Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus . He followed this with translations of three Euripides war plays - Iphigenia at Aulis , The Women of Troy and Helen . He was co-director of Compass Theatre for while and set up First Writes Radio with Ellen Dryden. Don Taylor's many stage plays include The Roses of Eyam , The Exorcism , Daughters of Venice , Brotherhood , When the Actors Come , Retreat from Moscow , When the Barbarians Came and his last play The Road to the Sea . See less